Turkey Day

The driveway is full of cars. The fridge is full of great food. And the couch is full of my favorite people. It’s Thanksgiving week!

We started the holiday at the gym under the orange lights. This is our version of a turkey trot. 

We had a great meal complete with everyone’s favorite side, and then we hurried outside to grab a couple of photos before Man U kicked off. 

The boys came home with a backpack of clothes that included pajama pants and sweats. That is all. 

We watched football, took naps, and then made our way to the pies. 

More football and more great food is on the agenda again tomorrow. 

Red White and Blue

Our neighbors outdid themselves with tonight’s fireworks show. We all sat poolside watching them do all of the work. I cheered at all the right times to show my appreciation. 

Best part is after the show nobody is fighting traffic to get back home. 

After a big lunch, an afternoon in the sun, and a swim in the pool, we are all sunkissed and ready for sleep.

So thankful to live in the home of the free and the land of the brave. ❤️🤍💙

Week with Family

The house is empty and very quiet. Nothing is cooking on the stove or baking in the oven. No drinks are being mixed. It can only mean our week with the family is over. 

Evan and the girls played three marker challenge. 

Keagan taught the girls how to make the “Keagan special”; the rest of the family simple refers to it as a ham sandwich. 

We ate great food, watched Cowboys football, went Black Friday shopping, watched a RHS basketball game, 

played a round at Top Golf, 

hiked Port Royal, 

attended a few holiday events in Nashville, 

and the girls spent one day at P3 and the batting cages. It was a week of fun! 

Now that my favorite week of the year is coming to a close, it’s time to decorate for Christmas!

Hoppy Easter

It never fails. Maybelle kills the Easter Bunny on Easter weekend. This year she really outdid herself. She found a nest of five babies in our yard. She scooped three of them out and then "played" with them. Keagan was beside himself when he realized the play was one-sided. He spent an hour outside trying to figure out he would save the last bunny. He finally decided doing nothing for it was cruel, so he used an air soft gun to end its suffering. Then he cried and cried.

Easter morning he was up bright and early seemingly over the loss and eager to see what the Easter Bunny had left him. This year it was earbuds, portable cell phone chargers, candy, and socks.

He is risen. He is risen indeed.

 

Merry Christmas!

We awoke bright and early for presents. Keagan was awake at 0600, but held off coming downstairs until 0700. Wes misses the wonder and excitement that came with Santa's anticipated arrival, so he asked the boys to run downstairs and jump on the bed like they did ten years ago. Keagan didn't disappoint.

 Santa's present this year was the PS4, and the grandparents sent a few games to go with it.

 

 

 

 

 

After church, we will have a traditional meal with ham, watch some football, and play in the spring like weather.

Merry Christmas!

Red, White and Blue

We spent the Fourth in Little Rock with Wes's family. It just so happens to be the agreed upon half way mark between Texas and Tennessee. We swam in the hotel pool that was really too cold to swim in. We ate a shrimp dinner downtown on the River, and then we attended Pops on the River.

The weather was perfect, the music was beautiful, and the memories we created with family were priceless. 

Happy Easter

Nothing says Easter like waking to find a dead rabbit on your porch, but that is exactly what happened to us today. Maybelle must have gone on a hunt last night, and she left the hind quarters of a rabbit on the porch as proof. Keagan firmly believes Maybelle felt threatened last night when the Easter Bunny finally made it to our house, and her instinct to protect us kicked in just in time. Thankfully, the Easter Bunny was able to fill the baskets with candy and toys before Maybelle struck.

On another note, I'm pretty sure this is the last Easter than I can expect either boy to agree to wear a two piece ensemble. This particular outfit that Keagan has on has been worn on Easter four different times, not in a row mind you, but it has been with us for the last three moves and it gets cuter every year!

I realized last night that I had no ham to make a traditional Easter lunch. At first I was really bummed and then I realized the lack of a ham meant I had an excuse, a pretty good one too, to eat Five Guys for lunch. And we did. It was good. Even if it is a little pathetic.


Happy Easter! We hope the Easter Bunny made it your house before his demise!

Veterans Day

Veteran's Day came and went. I feel conflicted celebrating the good deeds of veterans when our favorite veteran leaves next week for the desert and has been gone all month for pre-deployment training. I must tell you the boys have done AMAZING with Wes's absence. So well that I am worried that our children have taken it so well. I would like to think that we have done an awesome job of preparing them for the event, but it is probably more accurate to say that, as military children, they have adjusted to a lifestyle that Wes and I never experienced as children and are, therefore, more resilient to change. Either way, we recognized the day by sleeping in, watching TV, and eating junk food on the couch. It was probably a day very similar to that of most Americans.

This long weekend, though, also means we will travel to Atlanta for our fall soccer tournament. Here's to a weekend of big wins and a plea to myself to contain my sideline cheers!! Go GATORS!

Thanksgiving

For the first time in a really long time, we celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday with my family. We ate some wonderful food, watched several games of football, and played lots of Uno.

Last year my mom sent me the idea of making cupcakes in the shape of a turkeys. After making fifteen of those things last year and almost losing my mind thumbing through stacks and stacks of sprinkles to produce thirty turkey feet, I vowed never again. This year my mom found the idea of making Pilgrim hats out of cookies and marsh mellows. After her experience, she promised to eliminate all holiday cooking crafts.

Vikki wanted Wes to take a few pictures of Mallory. She wouldn't pose for anything, but this one of her walking out the front door is the cutest thing!